What's missing in KZK 2.0? - Page 4

Not obtuse, just bloody insightful and a little sarcastic.

I can't compare it to any other current ITV soap, as I don't watch anything else.

Shows that don't keep their viewers engaged, will fall by the wayside. If this show is not meeting your standards, then perhaps you should stop watching. If enough viewers move on, the show will be scrapped. But the chances of this show and the CVs rising up to meet your standards is zilch.

Bigly sad but true.

Originally posted by: TakingAStand2

Lmao! Your being obtuse on purpose and it’s not cute. Nobody is saying you need someone super awesome to elevate this show.., we are, at least, I am well aware how Indian soaps work. Even by Indian soap standards, and regardless which couple you ship, this show SUCKS. Compare this show to any Ekta show, or any show on star plus, this show will fall apart: lacklustre hero and heroine, poor villains without any motive, shoddy execution, the list goes on.

In today’s landscape of competitive programming, when shows are trying to step up their game to keep viewers engaged, we are all saying this show has no standards, and is quite surprising to say the least.

When I first heard of reboot, I wanted the originals and not any others. I hated it. But I still tried watching it for the nostalgia. But I quit it very early because of Erica’s acting as Prena. She was so bad especially her accent and was totally miscast for the character, Prena. Her accent has improved now, but the character itself is written extremely bad. So I am not sure anymore if it’s Erica’s acting along with the horrible written character or if it’s just that the character is written so weak that even the actress can’t save it. The good point is that she has good chemistry with Parth.

Coming to Parth as Anurag, surprisingly he was very good. It was a surprise because most thought Erica will be perfect as Prena and didn’t expect much from Parth when the news of KZK reboot came out and the leads were announced. At that time most didn’t know Parth. But after the original actor as Anurag, I can only think of Parth as Anurag. I am glad he was taken for the role.

Third, Komolika was written very bad this season and the acting by Hina didn’t help. It was an insult to Komolika. After Prena, that was another huge mistake by Cvs. Amna as Komo has been good, but like someone has said we don’t know why she’s even after Anurag. It’s such lack of creativity that cvs just made the vamp after the ML just because of getting him as if we have not seen this before for the million of times in ITV. Komo was not this lame nor written so bad.

Then getting Bajaj. I don’t need to say much about that stupidity. Ekta really thought she can make audience tolerate a villain white washing again. This isn’t the old times anymore where audience would tolerate leads getting married to others and wait years for them to reunite. Last time he was so hated by major section of audience, and they kept waiting because they thought leads will reunite. But audience knew better this time what Ekta would do if they give her the chance. Also, Ekta wrote Bajaj so weak too. Why couldn’t he be an actual grey character or a positive character, so he could be tolerated? If he’s villain, then let him remain villain rather than white washing him. And if cvs again wanted to make white wash him, then introduce him as positive and/or grey. You can’t have the cake and eat it too.

In total, it’s like Ekta thought she can just take the original characters and write any crap and audience will tolerate it. She remembered to take the original characters but didn’t bother to write them well. Other than Anurag who for the most part is written well, all the other main characters are an insult and written so poor. Also, I have noticed Ekta doesn’t put any hard work and doesn’t write the characters well in to her shows anymore. Her characters are so one dimensional now. It’s like she doesn’t care after the KB success. After seeing that she thinks if anything can become success then why work hard?? Her attention has been on her web series where she gets all creative and tries her best. She has stopped paying attention to her tv shows personally like she used to and has just left it to her writers. The last good show of hers was JA, imo. Now it’s just a business for her with no actual passion that she wants to do. It’s not like it wasn’t business for her earlier, but she was also personally involved and had interest in it which i don’t see anymore.

Someone very rightly said, this office track , plus komo, there is absolutely no novelty in it , even the general audience can guess what will happen..nothing to look forward to , only over negative episodes one after the other..."fight back against komo" is not happening , its only anupre dodging her attacks ..how long I dont know...and fighting back , everyone knows what it will be..everyday humiliations and taunts ke beech sassy prerna claiming her rights..

First of all its AnuPre! They are sober, unrelatable, and poor performance by the female lead on & off! Parth has every potential..With him they can change the characterization and he would be able to pull it off.But with Erica I highly doubt it. The importance they are trying to give to the leads is very unnatural. Thier feeling for each other looks very shallow! This story doesn't belong to this century and even if it does the screenplay is very very bad! I would say it will work only when prena stops going around Anurag and vice versa..Kindly come up with a fresh track!

Few more main issues

1) what's so special in PRENA! Who is emotionally unfaithful to every men around her!

2) what's with ANURAG! Who cant teach a women to respect herself but becomes a prey to every villain comes into the show!

3) what's with ANUpre ..had they grown together as a couple! Had the brought out the best for each other! Had they evn thought of respecting each other..NO..HAD ANURAG EVER THOUGHT PRENA NEEDS TO BE RESPECTED BEFORE MAKING HER ANYTHING IN HIS FAMILY! Had Prena ever stopped to be doormat!

4) Is Erica capable of being PRENA! Her acting and her subtle performance makes it very boring!

I don’t understand why Aamna even signed this show where her only acting is to see leads girna padna utna uthna then become psycho. There is no meaningful scene of her with anyone.

Komolika's every scene with Anurag is looks like stupidity. Mujhe jana hai, mujhe ee karna hai, oo karna hai etc etc.

Anurag doesn’t have anything except holding hand, uthana, eye locking etc etc.

How are they even expecting that Komolika will heal this damaged show when they doesn’t give her meaningful story or even proper scene with anyone? Ekela ekela psychogiri won’t bring TRP. Only Mohini gets proper scene with everyone.

Originally posted by: _charu_

Bajaj should have been introduced a little later when anupre realize that they were a flop couple..I mean..prerna valued someone else other than anurag..two they were forever confused whether mr bajaj should be positive or negative or gray..they tried everything with him but nothing worked out..everyone knows ek chatt was an epic flop...the way it ended was even worse...what happened later on was worse than that...if bajaj is so integral to prernas life in this story as well, and if ekta plans to get him back, she will have to give him a meaty character and NOT pit him against anurag ..not make it anurag vs bajaj...and NOT make it a triangle....if bajan doesnt come, anupre are anyways doomed bec ekta will never ever chuck out komo from their lives..she will stay there till the end...

The CVs were so confused about the character of Bajaj. At first, they wanted to introduce him as a person having both positive and negative traits, then they wanted to show him as hero and Anurag as villain, then they wanted to show he was the bad guy. I mean there was no consistency in characterization. I was looking forward to his rivalry with Anurag but they both were like six year old whiny kids. Same thing is with Komo. She doesn't come across as a cunning lady but a stupid teenage mean girl. I know they are antagonists but give them some depth.

Originally posted by: Soanz.19

Many many things that are lacking for me.

Story, screen play, script - The backbone of any fictional creation, which is majorly lacking here.

Lacklustre lead characters - Anurag was good till Komo happened. It's all downhill from there onwards. Prerna, less said the better. Only naam ki Prerna. Actions are hardly inspirational.

Love story - Two people don't become soulmates just by repeating so for "n" number of times. For me, there's nothing interesting in their love story. They don't add anything to each other's personalities. There's no underlying chemistry that is to be tapped into. Trip, fall, catch, eyelock isn't chemistry. I prefer stories which depict a man-woman being in a yin-yang kind of a relationship and that's completely lacking here.

No sub plots - NiviPam, Shivani, Shekhar-Suman just come and go to add something to Anurag and Prerna's story. As individual characters, they're nothing.

Humour quotient - Completely lacking. The setting is really dull and morose.

Rebooting KZK has been Ekta's worst decision ever👎🏼. Nothing much to be said apart from this

KZK is all hype, no story. I can't believe that Ekta can bring SRK to promote the show but doesn't care enough to take a look at the level of writing in the show. The lead characters are really uninspiring. I couldn't connect with Prerna since day 1 and after Komo, each dialog and action of Anurag makes me say What just happened? How can a topper guy be like this? AnuPre love story is all Netaji ka jumla. They talk big, claim they are 'soulmates' but we don't know how they fell in love and why they matter so much to each other. The supporting cast is merely a furniture to embellish the non existent AnuPre. They don't have an identity beside AnuPre.

Originally posted by: Pinot

Not obtuse, just bloody insightful and a little sarcastic.

I can't compare it to any other current ITV soap, as I don't watch anything else.

Shows that don't keep their viewers engaged, will fall by the wayside. If this show is not meeting your standards, then perhaps you should stop watching. If enough viewers move on, the show will be scrapped. But the chances of this show and the CVs rising up to meet your standards is zilch.

Bigly sad but true.

How insightful of you to mention Lin freaking Manuel Miranda. 😂😂😂 continue please.

Also, this lame argument nt of don’t like, stop watching is so redundant and pointless on a freaking forum!!! Like a teenager throwing tantrums. Why can’t people criticize this show? Why can’t we talk about things we don’t like and voice our opinion? Specially this thread, where we aren’t bashing, just logically discussing where the show/makers messed up. Like minded people are discussing it civilly and having a Clean dialogue.
and lol, I’ll sleep peacefully knowing the makers have no intention or aptitude of rising to my ‘high’ standards of wanting a show that makes sense and not press the reset button all the time. 😂

Anyways, I don’t want to spoil the discussion and stop people from expressing their viewpoints so let’s make our separate ways.

Originally posted by: The_Best

When I first heard of reboot, I wanted the originals and not any others. I hated it. But I still tried watching it for the nostalgia. But I quit it very early because of Erica’s acting as Prena. She was so bad especially her accent and was totally miscast for the character, Prena. Her accent has improved now, but the character itself is written extremely bad. So I am not sure anymore if it’s Erica’s acting along with the horrible written character or if it’s just that the character is written so weak that even the actress can’t save it. The good point is that she has good chemistry with Parth.

Coming to Parth as Anurag, surprisingly he was very good. It was a surprise because most thought Erica will be perfect as Prena and didn’t expect much from Parth when the news of KZK reboot came out and the leads were announced. At that time most didn’t know Parth. But after the original actor as Anurag, I can only think of Parth as Anurag. I am glad he was taken for the role.

Third, Komolika was written very bad this season and the acting by Hina didn’t help. It was an insult to Komolika. After Prena, that was another huge mistake by Cvs. Amna as Komo has been good, but like someone has said we don’t know why she’s even after Anurag. It’s such lack of creativity that cvs just made the vamp after the ML just because of getting him as if we have not seen this before for the million of times in ITV. Komo was not this lame nor written so bad.

Then getting Bajaj. I don’t need to say much about that stupidity. Ekta really thought she can make audience tolerate a villain white washing again. This isn’t the old times anymore where audience would tolerate leads getting married to others and wait years for them to reunite. Last time he was so hated by major section of audience, and they kept waiting because they thought leads will reunite. But audience knew better this time what Ekta would do if they give her the chance. Also, Ekta wrote Bajaj so weak too. Why couldn’t he be an actual grey character or a positive character, so he could be tolerated? If he’s villain, then let him remain villain rather than white washing him. And if cvs again wanted to make white wash him, then introduce him as positive and/or grey. You can’t have the cake and eat it too.

In total, it’s like Ekta thought she can just take the original characters and write any crap and audience will tolerate it. She remembered to take the original characters but didn’t bother to write them well. Other than Anurag who for the most part is written well, all the other main characters are an insult and written so poor. Also, I have noticed Ekta doesn’t put any hard work and doesn’t write the characters well in to her shows anymore. Her characters are so one dimensional now. It’s like she doesn’t care after the KB success. After seeing that she thinks if anything can become success then why work hard?? Her attention has been on her web series where she gets all creative and tries her best. She has stopped paying attention to her tv shows personally like she used to and has just left it to her writers. The last good show of hers was JA, imo. Now it’s just a business for her with no actual passion that she wants to do. It’s not like it wasn’t business for her earlier, but she was also personally involved and had interest in it which i don’t see anymore.

I too thought Erica would be perfect as Prerna. But her portrayal is uninspired in most of the episodes. She seems unconvinced and her lack of enthusiasm shows in her delivery. CVs had already butchered the character so much and Erica's lackluster performance is not helping the case.

I've always thought Parth was overrated and got the show just because he had a huge fan following from his youth show, but I was pleasantly surprised by his portrayal of Anurag Basu before the Komo track. In fact, if they had not shown Anurag jumping like a superman over fire, his portrayal was restrained and to the point.

With the hype they created for Hina Khan's Komo, I felt the show going downhill from there. I never understood her obsession with Anurag. There was no distinct trait in Anu except that he was a topper and a good guy, both of which should have not appealed to Komo. And the whole drama of why Anu's not after her could suit for a teen drama queen not for a cunning, scheming grown up. Komo's motivation needed to be a lot stronger and realistic for her to be truly menacing.

This Kasautii looks like a sub par fan fiction written by middle graders who are completely oblivious how life works. Sometimes I feel myself as stupid for tolerating this stupid show and wasting my time.